About the Authors

Michael Luke Walker

Michael.Walker@inria.fr (MLW); Christophe.Godin@inria.fr (CG)

Affiliation INRIA, Virtual Plants Project Team, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Etienne Farcot

Affiliation INRIA, Virtual Plants Project Team, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Jan Traas

Affiliation Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, ENS-Lyon, CNRS, INRA, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

Christophe Godin

Michael.Walker@inria.fr (MLW); Christophe.Godin@inria.fr (CG)

Affiliation INRIA, Virtual Plants Project Team, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLW CG. Performed the experiments: MLW. Analyzed the data: MLW EF JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLW EF JT CG. Wrote the paper: MLW.